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Study pushes to reform alcohol laws to reduce drunk driving deaths

CHICOPEE, Mass. (WWLP) – A new study suggests sweeping changes when it comes to alcohol.

A group of scientists are pushing alcohol reform to eliminate drunk driving deaths. Among the changes, they propose lowering the blood alcohol content intoxication threshold from .08 to .05. This is already the limit in countries like Austria, Denmark and Japan.

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Indiana Senate OKs Sunday retail alcohol sales, 39-10

INDIANAPOLIS — The Indiana Senate voted overwhelmingly Monday to get rid of the nation's only statewide ban on Sunday retail alcohol sales, and the House is poised to follow suit on Tuesday.

Senate Bill 1 authorizes Hoosier businesses that already sell alcohol for at-home consumption six days a week to also sell beer, wine and liquor on Sundays between noon and 8 p.m. local time.

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Move to Scrap Limits on Liquor Licenses Stirs Opposition

RANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — Alcohol regulators in Kentucky have filed a proposal that would repeal rules limiting the number of licenses available for retail package liquor stores and by-the-drink liquor sales.  The Lexington Herald-Leader reports the proposed administrative regulations are stirring opposition. The Kentucky Alcoholic Beverage Control Board filed the proposal last month.

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United States: Colorado Liquor Law Working Group Releases Report On Changes To Retail Liquor Licenses Mondaq

On December 29, 2017, the SB 16-197 Working Group released its report to the Senate Business, Labor, and Technology Committee and the House Business Affairs and Labor Committee making recommendations on the implementation of the sweeping changes to Colorado Liquor Law that were signed into law by Governor Hickenlooper in 2016.

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Petitions Aim To Garner ‘Craft Beer Tourism’ Support For Legislation Changes

BERLIN – Efforts to reform craft beer regulations in Maryland are in full force along the Eastern Shore, but distributors in the industry are voicing their concerns.

Last year, Comptroller Peter Franchot formed a “Reform on Tap” task force in response to the 2017 passage of House Bill 1283, which imposes certain restrictions on breweries with a class five brewery license.

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How Republican tax reform eliminated special interest carve-outs — and created a bunch of new ones

At Insight Brewing in Minneapolis earlier this month, 3rd District GOP Rep. Erik Paulsen was raising a glass to the Republican tax bill, signed into law by the president just weeks prior.  The assorted craft brewers and beer boosters in the room were, in turn, raising a glass to Paulsen: the Eden Prairie congressman successfully included a provision in the tax legislation that slashes the taxes that brewers — as well as winemakers and distillers — pay to the federal government.